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[ANN] Upcoming Camp Smalltalk Raleigh NC
by Marcus Denker Jan. 17, 2017

Jan. 17, 2017

(forwarded for Donald MacQueen [|]) Greetings Fellow Smalltalkers, Instantiations is sponsoring a Camp Smalltalk In Raleigh NC the end of March. Would you please add this post to your website? Thanks. We would like to invite you to Camp Smalltalk - RDU, March 31st – April 2nd 2017 in downtown Durham, North Carolina. Event details and registration info are available at http://www.campsmalltalk-rdu.com Hope to see you there! -- Donald [|] A bad day in [] is better than a good day in {}.

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PharoDays 2017.... poll for dates
by Stéphane Ducasse Jan. 13, 2017

Jan. 13, 2017

We checked which dates would make sense… the idea would be to do it after the release of Pharo6. For the place we are checking Lille, we can get some support from Inria/the University for doing a small event like this. The best here is April, either before or after school holidays. To know if this makes any sense, we have set up a doodle: http://doodle.com/poll/f8n5zhv7p8fqwyih Marcus -------------------------------------------- Stéphane Ducasse http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr http://www.synectique.eu / http://www.pharo.org 03 59 35 87 52 Assistant: Julie Jonas 03 59 57 78 50 03 59 35 86 16 S. Ducasse - Inria 40, avenue Halley, Parc Scientifique de la Haute Borne, Bât.A, Park Plaza Villeneuve d'Ascq 59650 France

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The 2017 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is Now Live
by Richard Sargent Jan. 13, 2017

Jan. 13, 2017

Arden Thomas reports "Questions 39 and 47 give us an opportunity to mention Smalltalk." http://stackoverflow.blog/2017/01/The-2017-Stack-Overflow-Developer-Survey-… -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/The-2017-Stack-Overflow-Developer-Survey-is-Now-Live-… Sent from the ESUG mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Monday, January 30th.
by Giovanni Corriga Jan. 7, 2017

Jan. 7, 2017

Happy New Year! The first 2017 meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, January 30th. We'll meet at our usual venue The Counting House ( http://www.the-counting-house.com/) at 7pm. If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting's Meetup page: *https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/236496717/ <https://www.meetup.com/UKSTUG/events/236496717/>* . See you there! Giovanni

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<Programming> 2017: Call for workshop, symposium & poster submissions
by Tim Molderez Jan. 6, 2017

Jan. 6, 2017

----------------------------------------------------------------------- <Programming> 2017 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming April 3-6, 2017, Brussels, Belgium http://2017.programming-conference.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------- We are excited to announce there will be 10 co-located events at the <Programming> 2017 conference (and more to come!): - ELS 2017 - 10th European Lisp Symposium - Modularity 2017 Invited talks - International Symposium on Modularity - ACM Student Research Competition / <Programming> 2017 Posters - LASSY 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Live Adaptation of Software SYstems - MOMO 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Modularity in Modelling - MoreVMs 2017 - 1st Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs - PASS 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack - PX 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Programming Experience - ProWeb 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web - Salon des Refusés 2017 - 1st edition of the Salon des Refusés workshop All co-located events will take place during April 3-4 2017. CFPs for each of these events are listed below. (apart from Modularity 2017, which is invitation-based) **************************************************************** ELS 2017 - 10th European Lisp Symposium Submissions: Mon 30 Jan 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/els-2017 **************************************************************** The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate. The 10th European Lisp Symposium invites high quality papers about novel research results, insights and lessons learned from practical applications and educational perspectives. We also encourage submissions about known ideas as long as they are presented in a new setting and/or in a highly elegant way. Topics include but are not limited to: * Context-, aspect-, domain-oriented and generative programming * Macro-, reflective-, meta- and/or rule-based development approaches * Language design and implementation * Language integration, inter-operation and deployment * Development methodologies, support and environments * Educational approaches and perspectives * Experience reports and case studies ******************************************************************** ACM Student Research Competition / <Programming> 2017 Posters Submissions: Mon 16 Jan 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/programming-posters ******************************************************************** The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to up-and-coming young researchers, and offers them an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help sharpen communication and networking skills. ACM’s SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to an SRC. Please see our website for requirements and further details. ****************************************************************** LASSY 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Live Adaptation of Software SYstems Submissions: Fri 3 Feb 2017 Notifications: Fri 3 Mar 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/LASSY-2017-papers ****************************************************************** When developing current-day software systems, their deployment and usage environments should be considered carefully, in order to understand the adaptations those systems might need to undergo to interact with other systems and with their environment. Moreover, due to the portability, mobility and increasingly evolutionary nature of software systems, such adaptations should be enacted even while the system is running. Developing such software systems can prove challenging, and many seemingly different techniques to address this concern have been proposed over the last couple of years. The intention of the LASSY workshop is to congregate all topics relevant to dynamic adaptation and run-time evolution of software systems, ranging from a computer science perspective covering the domains of programming languages, model-driven software development, software and service composition, context-aware databases, software variability, requirements engineering, UI adaptation and other domains, to a human perspective covering sociological or ethical implications of dynamic software systems. The workshop provides a space for discussion and collaboration between researchers working on the problem of enabling live adaptations to software systems, across the development stack. Topics of Interest: * Design and Implementation of Live Adaptive Software Systems * Context-, aspect-, feature-, role- and agent-oriented programming * Context representation and discovery * Context-aware model-driven software development * Context-aware data management * Software variability and dynamic product lines * Self-adaptive, self-explanatory systems * Inconsistency management, verification, and validation * Middleware and Runtime of Live Adaptive Software Systems * Dynamic software evolution, upgrades and configuration * Dynamic software and service composition mechanisms * Dynamic software architecture and middleware approaches * Dynamic user interface adaptation and multimodal user interfaces * Impact and Assessment of Live Adaptive Software Systems * User acceptance and usability issues * Human, sociological, ethical and legal aspects * Privacy and security aspects of dynamic adaptability * Live adaptation in smart environments (e.g. smart rooms, smart robot cells, smart factories, smart cities) * Self-adaptation and emergence in SoS and CPSoS **************************************************************** MOMO 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Modularity in Modelling Abstract submissions (optional): Sun Jan 29 2017 Paper submissions: Sun Feb 5 2017 Notifications: Wed Feb 22 2017 http://www.momo2017.ece.mcgill.ca/cfp.htm **************************************************************** Extending the time-honored practice of separation of concerns, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) promotes the use of separate models to address the various concerns in the development of complex software-intensive systems. The main objective is to choose the right level of abstraction to modularize a concern, specify its properties and reason about the system under development depending on stakeholder and development needs. While some of these models can be defined with a single modelling language, a variety of heterogeneous models and languages are typically used in the various phases of software development. Furthermore, Domain-Specific Modelling Languages designed to address particular concerns are also increasingly used. Despite the power of abstraction of modelling, models of real-world problems and systems quickly grow to such an extent that managing the complexity by using proper modularization techniques becomes necessary. As a result, many (standard) modelling notations have been extended with aspect-oriented mechanisms and advanced composition operators to support advanced separation of concerns, to combine (possibly heterogeneous) models modularizing different concerns, to execute an application based on modularized models, and to reason over global properties of modularized models. The Second International Modularity in Modelling Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners interested in the theoretical and practical challenges resulting from applying modularity, advanced separation of concerns, and advanced composition at the modelling level. It is intended to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and discussing the impact of the use of modularization in the context of MDE at different levels of abstraction. We are interested in submissions on all topics related to modularity and modelling including but not limited to: * Modularization Support in Modelling Languages and Tools * Model Interfaces * Homogeneous Model Composition Operators * Heterogeneous Model Composition Operators * Visualization of Modularized and Composed Models * Effects of Using Modularization and Composition in Modelling * On Verification and Validation * On Reuse * On the Model-Driven Software Development Process (Requirements Engineering, Software Architecture, Software Design, Implementation) * On Maintenance * Experience Reports / Empirical Evaluations of Applying Modularization and Composition in Modelling * Feature-Oriented, Aspect-Oriented and Concern-Oriented Modelling * Modularization support and composition operators for specific modelling notations * Modelling essential characteristics of specific (crosscutting) concerns * Multi-View Modelling: avoiding inconsistencies, avoiding Redundancies * Support for Detecting and/or Resolution of Feature Interactions * Domain-Specific Modelling * Modularization for Domain-Specific Languages * Composition for Domain-Specific Languages * Domain-specific Aspect Models ****************************************************************************** MoreVMs 2017 - 1st Workshop on Modern Language Runtimes, Ecosystems, and VMs Submissions: Wed 15 Feb 2017 Notifications: Wed 1 Mar 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/MoreVMs-2017-papers ****************************************************************************** The main goal of the workshop is to bring together both researchers and practitioners and facilitate effective sharing of their respective experiences and ideas on how languages and runtimes are utilized and where they need to improve further. We welcome presentation proposals in the form of extended abstracts discussing experiences, work-in-progress, as well as future visions from the academic as well as industrial perspective. Relevant topics include, but are definitely not limited to, the following: * Extensible VM design (compiler- or interpreter-based VMs) * Reusable runtime components (e.g. interpreters, garbage collectors, intermediate representations) * Static and dynamic compiler techniques * Techniques for compilation to high-level languages such as JavaScript * Runtimes and mechanisms for interoperability between languages * Tooling support (e.g. debugging, profiling, etc.) * Programming language development environments and virtual machines * Case studies of existing language implementations, virtual machines, and runtime components (e.g. design choices, tradeoffs, etc.) * Language implementation challenges and trade-offs (e.g. performance, completeness, etc.) * Surveys and applications usage reports to understand runtime usage in the wild * Surveys on frameworks and their impact on runtime usage * New research ideas on how we want to build languages in the future ************************************************************************** PASS 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Across the System Stack Submissions: Mon 13 Feb 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/PASS-2017#Call-for-Papers ************************************************************************** The landscape of computation platforms has changed dramatically in recent years. Emerging systems - such as wearable devices, smartphones, unmanned aerial vehicles, Internet of things, cloud computing servers, heterogeneous clusters, and data centers - pose a distinct set of system-oriented challenges ranging from data throughput, energy efficiency, security, real-time guarantees, to high performance. In the meantime, code quality, such as modularity or extensibility, remains a cornerstone in modern software engineering, bringing in crucial benefits such as modular reasoning, program understanding, and collaborative software development. Current methodologies and software development technologies should be revised in order to produce software to meet system-oriented goals, while preserving high internal code quality. The role of the Software Engineer is essential, having to be aware of the implications that each design, architecture and implementation decision has on the application system ecosystem. This workshop is driven by one fundamental question: How does internal code quality interact with system-oriented goals? We welcome both positive and negative responses to this question. An example of the former would be modular reasoning systems specifically designed to promote system-oriented goals, whereas an example of the latter would be anti-patterns against system-oriented goals during software development. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: * Energy-aware software engineering (e.g. energy efficiency models, energy efficiency as a quality attribute) * Modularity support (e.g., programming language design, development tools or verification) for applications in resource-constrained or real-time systems * Emerging platforms (e.g., Internet of Things and wearable devices) * Security support (e.g., compositional information flow, compositional program analysis) * Software architecture for reusability and adaptability in systems and their interactions with applications * Empirical studies (patterns and anti-patterns) on the relationship between internal code quality and system-oriented goals * Software engineering techniques to balance the trade-off between internal code quality and efficiency * Memory bloats and long-tail performance problems across modular boundaries * Program optimization across modular boundaries * Internal code quality in systems software * Reasoning across applications, compilers, and virtual machines **************************************************************** PX 2017 - 2nd Programming Experience Workshop Submissions: Sat 4 Feb 2017 Notifications: Mon 27 Feb 2017 http://programming-experience.org/px17 **************************************************************** Imagine a software development task: some sort of requirements and specification including performance goals and perhaps a platform and programming language. A group of developers head into a vast workroom. In that room they discover they need to explore the domain and the nature of potential solutions—they need exploratory programming. The Programming Experience Workshop is about what happens in that room when one or a couple of programmers sit down in front of computers and produce code, especially when it’s exploratory programming. Do they create text that is transformed into running behavior (the old way), or do they operate on behavior directly (“liveness”); are they exploring the live domain to understand the true nature of the requirements; are they like authors creating new worlds; does visualization matter; is the experience immediate, immersive, vivid and continuous; do fluency, literacy, and learning matter; do they build tools, meta-tools; are they creating languages to express new concepts quickly and easily; and curiously, is joy relevant to the experience? Correctness, performance, standard tools, foundations, and text-as-program are important traditional research areas, but the experience of programming and how to improve and evolve it are the focus of this workshop, and in this edition we would like to focus on exploratory programming. The technical topics include: * Exploratory programming * Live programming * Authoring * Representation of active content * Visualization * Navigation * Modularity mechanisms * Immediacy * Literacy * Fluency * Learning * Tool building * Language engineering ************************************************************************* ProWeb 2017 - 1st Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web Submissions: Wed 15 Feb 2017 Notifications: Wed 1 Mar 2017 http://2017.programming-conference.org/track/proweb-2017-papers ************************************************************************* Full-fledged web applications have become ubiquitous on desktop and mobile devices alike. Whereas “responsive” web applications already offered a more desktop-like experience, there is an increasing demand for “rich” web applications (RIAs) that offer collaborative and even off-line functionality —Google docs being the prototypical example. Long gone are the days that web servers merely had to answer incoming HTTP request with a block of static HTML. Today’s servers react to a continuous stream of events coming from JavaScript applications that have been pushed to clients. As a result, application logic and data is increasingly distributed. Traditional dichotomies such as “client vs. server” and “offline vs. online” are fading. The 1st International Workshop on Programming Technology for the Future Web, or ProWeb17, is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share and discuss new technology for programming these and future evolutions of the web. We welcome submissions introducing programming technology (i.e., frameworks, libraries, programming languages, program analyses and development tools) for implementing web applications and for maintaining their quality over time, as well as experience reports about the use of state-of-the-art programming technology. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: * Quality on the new web: static and dynamic program analyses; code, design test and process metrics; development and migration tools; automated testing and test generation; contract systems, type systems, and web service API conformance checking; … * Hosting languages on the web: new runtimes; transpilation or compilation to JavaScript, WebAssembly, asm.js, … * Designing languages for the web: multi-tier (or tierless) programming; reactive programming; frameworks for multi-tier or reactive programming on the web; … * Distributed data sharing, replication and consistency: cloud types, CRDTs, eventual consistency, offline storage, peer-to-peer communication, … * Security on the web: client-side and server-side security policies; policy enforcement; proxies and membranes; vulnerability detection; dynamic patching, … * Surveys and case studies using state-of-the-art web technology (e.g., WebAssembly, WebSocket, LocalStorage, AppCache, ServiceWorkers, Meteor, deepstream.io, Angular.js, React and React Native, Swarm.js, Caja, TypeScript, Proxies, ClojureScript, Amber Smalltalk, Scala.js, …) * Ideas on and experience reports about: how to reconcile the need for quality with the need for agility on the web; how to master and combine the myriad of tier-specific technologies required to develop a web application, … * Position statements on what the future of the web will look like **************************************************************** Salon des Refusés 2017 Submissions: Wed 1 Feb 2017 Notifications: Fri 17 Feb 2017 https://refuses.github.io **************************************************************** Salon des Refusés (“exhibition of rejects”) was an 1863 exhibition of artworks rejected from the official Paris Salon. The jury of Paris Salon required near-photographic realism and classified works according to a strict genre hierarchy. Paintings by many, later famous, modernists such as Édouard Manet were rejected and appeared in what became known as the Salon des Refusés. This workshop aims to be the programming language research equivalent of Salon des Refusés. We provide a venue for exploring new ideas and new ways of doing computer science. Many interesting ideas about programming might struggle to find space in the modern programming language research community, often because they are difficult to evaluate using established evaluation methods (be it proofs, measurements or controlled user studies). As a result, new ideas are often seen as “unscientific”. This workshop provides a venue where such interesting and thought-provoking ideas can be exposed to critical evaluation. Submissions that provoke interesting discussion among the program committee members will be published together with an attributed review that presents an alternative position, develops additional context or summarizes discussion from the workshop. This means of engaging with papers not just enables explorations of novel programming ideas, but also encourages new ways of doing computer science. Topics of interest The scope of the workshop is determined more by the format of submissions than by the specific area of programming language or computer science research that we are interested in. We welcome submissions in a format that makes it possible to think about programming in a new way, including, but not limited to: * Thought experiments – we believe that thought experiments, analogies and illustrative metaphors can provide novel insights and inspire fruitful programming language ideas. * Experimentation – we find prejudices in favour of theory, as far back as there is institutionalized science, but programming can often be seen more as experimentation than as theorizing. We welcome interesting experiments even if there is yet no overarching theory that explains why they happened. * Paradigms – all scientific work is rooted in a scientific paradigm that frame what questions can be asked. We encourage submissions that reflect on existing paradigms or explore alternative scientific paradigms. * Metaphors, myths and analogies – any description of formal, mathematical, quantitative or even poetical nature still represents just an analogy. We believe that fruitful ideas can be learned from less common forms of analogies as well as from the predominant, formal and mathematical ones. * From jokes to science fiction – a story or an artistic performance may explore ideas and spark conversations that provide crucial inspiration for development of new computer science thinking.

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[Pre-ANN] ESUG 2017
by Marcus Denker Dec. 20, 2016

Dec. 20, 2016

Hello, Planning for ESUG 2017 has progressed to the point where can officially announce the Date and Location: Where? Maribor, Slovenia When? 4th-8th of September, 2017 More information will be on the website early 2017. We hope to see you next year! Marcus

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Any Pharo 5 in the industrial setup?
by Yuriy Tymchuk Nov. 29, 2016

Nov. 29, 2016

Dear all, my name is Yuriy Tymchuk, I am a researcher from Bern University and the author of QualityAssistant and other quality-related tweaks and experiments in Pharo. I am interested to know is anybody uses Pharo 5 in industry as I've spent plenty of time to develop QualityAssistant and I am interested to know if it is useful in the industrial setup. So if you know any project please let me know. If you are an industrial developer working on Pharo 5 I’m interested in a short chat. If you don’t have a time for chat maybe you can spend a couple of minutes on a small questioner because I really want to make QA useful for developers. Cheers. Yuriy

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Windows Store - I am in 😎
by Maarten Mostert Nov. 24, 2016

Nov. 24, 2016

Hi All, I am really happy to announce you that StakePoint is now available in the Windows Store ton top of the Mac App Store https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh5lnxq <https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh5lnxq> This has not been easy, and I have been pushing this issue for years. I finally managed to sign the early adopters contract with MS last week and got some additional documents from my MS engineer allowing me to fix the missing pieces. Your are obviously allowed to vote 🚀 Maarten MOSTERT 28 Av Alphonse Denis 83400 Hyères, France +33 676411296 http://stakepoint.com/ <http://stakepoint.com/> Now the most popular Project Management Tool on MacOS

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2nd Call for papers - <Programming> 2017
by Tim Molderez Nov. 10, 2016

Nov. 10, 2016

<Programming> 2017 : The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming April 3-6, 2017, Brussels, Belgium http://2017.programming-conference.org We started a new conference and journal focused on everything to do with programming, including the experience of programming. We call the conference <Programming> for short. Paper submissions and publications are handled by the journal. Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. ******************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************** <Programming> 2017 accept scholarly papers including essays that advance the knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but in each case there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming. **PAPER SUBMISSIONS**: December 1, 2016 We accept submissions covering several areas of expertise. These areas include, but are not limited to: • General-purpose programming • Distributed systems programming • Parallel and multi-core programming • Graphics and GPU programming • Security programming • User interface programming • Database programming • Visual and live programming • Data mining and machine learning programming • Interpreters, virtual machines and compilers • Modularity and separation of concerns • Model-based development • Metaprogramming and reflection • Testing and debugging • Program verification • Programming education • Programming environments • Social coding ******************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ******************************************************** • Research paper submissions: December 1, 2016 • Research paper first notifications: February 1, 2017 • Research paper final notifications: March 7, 2017 • Workshop proposals: November 15, 2016 • European Lisp Symposium submissions: January 30, 2017 **new** • Salon des Refusés workshop submissions: February 1, 2017 **new** • LASSY 2017 workshop submissions: January 13, 2017 **new** • PX 2017 workshop submissions: February 4, 2017 • Poster abstract submissions: January 16, 2017 ******************************************************** ORGANIZATION ******************************************************** General Chair: Theo D'Hondt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Local Organizing Chair: Wolfgang De Meuter, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Program Chair: Crista V. Lopes, University of California, Irvine Organizing Committee: Jörg Kienzle (workshops), McGill University Hidehiko Masuhara (demos), Tokyo Institute of Technology Ralf Lämmel (contest), University of Koblenz-Landau Jennifer Sartor (posters), Vrije Universiteit Brussel Tobias Pape (web technology), HPI - University of Potsdam Tim Molderez (publicity), Vrije Universiteit Brussel Program Committee: Andrew Black, Portland State University Shigeru Chiba, University of Tokyo Yvonne Coady, University of Victoria Robby Findler, Northwestern University Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Málaga Richard Gabriel, IBM Research Elisa Gonzalez Boix, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Jeff Gray, University of Alabama Robert Hirschfeld, HPI - University of Potsdam Roberto Ierusalimschy, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Jörg Kienzle, McGill University Hidehiko Masuhara, Tokyo Institute of Technology Sasa Misailovic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Guido Salvaneschi, Technische Universität Darmstadt Mario Südholt, Ecole des mines de Nantes Jurgen Vinju, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica Tijs van der Storm, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica ******************************************************** <Programming> 2017 is kindly supported by: ACM in-cooperation ACM SIGPLAN in-cooperation ACM SIGSOFT in-cooperation AOSA Vrije Universiteit Brussel ******************************************************** For more information, visit http://2017.programming-conference.org

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UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting - Monday, November 28th
by Giovanni Corriga Nov. 7, 2016

Nov. 7, 2016

Hi, The next meeting of the UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting will be on Monday, November 28th. We'll meet at our usual venue The Counting House ( http://www.the-counting-house.com/) at 7pm. If you'd like to join us, you can just show up at the pub. You can also sign up in advance at the meeting's Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/ UKSTUG/events/233683252/ . Thanks, Giovanni

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